Crowd-Sourced Judging Platform with Bias Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing entertainment and athletic events face challenges in maintaining audience engagement and fairness in judging due to subjective scoring, lack of transparency, and potential biases among judges, which can lead to decreased viewer interest and sponsorship revenue.

Innovation Solution

An interactive, crowd-sourced judging and scoring platform that utilizes real-time polling, voting, and predictive analysis, allowing spectators to participate as judges through mobile devices, with an AI engine to analyze data for bias detection and provide more objective scoring.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If traditional judge scoring is used, then the judging process is simple to operate, but the scoring lacks objectivity and transparency

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvescoring objectivityVSAvoidjudging system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The judging system is segmented into multiple independent judges, each providing individual scores. The system divides the overall evaluation into multiple discrete scoring instances that can be independently collected, analyzed, and aggregated, thereby improving objectivity through distributed judgment rather than centralized decision-making.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary computing platform that acts as a mediator between judges and the final scoring result. This intermediary collects scores from multiple judges, applies statistical analysis, detects potential biases, and generates an aggregated evaluation, thereby removing the need for direct judge-to-result connection and improving transparency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If multiple judges are used for scoring, then the scoring objectivity improves, but the system complexity and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvescoring fairnessVSAvoidjudging time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables continuous score submission from multiple judges simultaneously rather than sequentially. Judges can submit their evaluations in parallel, and the system continuously aggregates these scores in real-time, maintaining the useful action of score collection without interruption or delay, thereby reducing total judging time while maintaining fairness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces the mechanical process of manual score collection and aggregation with an automated computing system. The computing platform automatically collects scores, performs statistical analysis, detects biases, and generates results, substituting manual mechanical operations with automated digital processes that are both faster and more accurate.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Productivity

If real-time scoring transparency is implemented, then audience engagement increases, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaudience engagementVSAvoidplatform complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements real-time feedback by continuously displaying scoring information to the audience as judges submit their evaluations. The platform provides live updates on score submissions, aggregated results, and even bias detection outcomes, creating a feedback loop that keeps the audience engaged and informed throughout the judging process without requiring complex additional hardware.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The computing platform performs multiple functions simultaneously: it collects scores from judges, performs statistical analysis, detects potential biases, aggregates results, and provides real-time transparency to the audience. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single multi-functional system, the platform achieves high audience engagement without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11938393B2Devices, systems, and their methods of use for desktop evaluation
Publication Date: 2024.03.26 FANMOUNTAIN LLC
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AI summary

Presented herein is an interactive platform for judging an activity by a participant in an event. The platform includes a client application program downloadable to a mobile device. The program may include a database storing a mobile device identifier (ID), a user ID, user information, and location data of the device. The application may further be configured to display one or more events of the activity as well as an input for receiving a score of the activity from the user. The platform may additionally include a server system connected with the client application programs via a communication network. The server system may be configured for receiving the mobile device ID, the user ID, the user information, and the location data for the client program, and may further be configured to receive the scores from the users, and to adjust the scores according to determined bias of the associated user.